Andrés Gaos: 'Granada', symphonic poem

Durante los 5 años transcurridos entre 1913 y 1917, Gaos compone gran parte de sus obras más significativas: el Himno al centenario de la independencia argentina, la ópera Amor vedado, el poema sinfónico Granada y la Sonata para violín y piano. 

According to a review published in La Prensa newspaper (Buenos Aires) in October 1916, after its premiere: ‘Granada is a symphonic poem of great importance by maestro Gaos. In its instrumentation, full of colours, one seems to hear the rustling of the foliage with birdsongs in the background. The pizzicato that imitates the guitar and the staccato col legno of the strings are resources that bring happiness. The prolonged, high-pitched pedal note sustained by the violins at the beginning and at the end of the poem is also worth mentioning’.